Thomas Judd

Thomas Judd was one of the people in the great Puritan migration from England to the New World. He settled originally in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Ihe was granted a home lot of four acres in the August of 1634. The 25 of May in 1636 was a special day for him as he was admitted into the colony as a freeman. That meant he was a member of the Colony based on his religious beliefs and would be allowed to help govern the Colony. He was a member of the church under the Reverends Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone while in Cambridge and Hartford.

Shortly after Thomas became a freeman, he with a group of 100 men and children that included his family of the time left Cambridge and traveled to the Connecticut River. He had a lot in Hartford that he eventually built a dwelling house along with out houses, yards and gardens that was bout two acres. This lot was next to a highway leading to the ox pasture on the east; James Cole's land on the south, a highway to Wethersfield on the west; and Willys home on the north.

Thomas was made on of the first proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut. Another milestone date in his life was 12 October 1652 when he became one of the seven pillars of Farmington along with Roger Newton, Stephen Hart, John Brownson, John Cowles, Thomas Thomason, and Robert Porter.

He died on the 12th day of November in 1688 while living in Northhampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

According to "Crozier's General Armory" his family motto was "Fide sed cui vide". He had a crest of Gules, a fesse raguly between three boars' heads erased argent. on a ducal coronet or, a cockatrice, wings displayed ppr.

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